. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . r, having received his artistic training in work, as a copyist of Diirers and Campagnolasprints, can be traced back to 1514. In 1516 he dated his* Dead Christ supported by Angels, after a picture byAndrea del Sarto. The poorness of this really veryinadequate engraving appears, according to Vasaris story,to have roused Andreas wrath. About 1518 Venezianowas working along with Marc-Antonio in Rome. To thisyear belongs his large, fantastic plate known as the Stregozzo (a witch riding on a skeleto
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . r, having received his artistic training in work, as a copyist of Diirers and Campagnolasprints, can be traced back to 1514. In 1516 he dated his* Dead Christ supported by Angels, after a picture byAndrea del Sarto. The poorness of this really veryinadequate engraving appears, according to Vasaris story,to have roused Andreas wrath. About 1518 Venezianowas working along with Marc-Antonio in Rome. To thisyear belongs his large, fantastic plate known as the Stregozzo (a witch riding on a skeleton). In addition toengravings bearing his signature, after Raphael, GiulioRomano, Bandinelli and others, a great number of plates,such as The Virgin with the Fish, formerly ascribed toMarc-Antonio, may be accepted as Agostinos work. Inhis later days Agostino produced numerous prints of AGOSTINO VENEZIANO 103 ornament, embodying details of classical architecture, andalso portraits, the latter without any fineness of conception,lie appears to have continued working till about Fig. 47. Agostino Vencziano : The Hour of Death. Another of Marc-Antonios assistants in Rome appearsto have been Marco da Ravenna, who placed his fullname on an engraving of the Laocoon group of sculpture, 104 ENGRAVING IN ITALY and his monogram --H^y^. made up of an R and S, on several prints. By old tradition his name is given as Marco Dentcda Ravenna (died 1527). Marco was a weak draughtsman,but a powerful wielder of the burin, clinging more closelythan anyone else to the manner of Marc-Antonio. Whenhe stands by himself his weakness is apparent, and he fullyrealises that his only chance lies in imitation of his engravings, once considered as original productionsof Marc-Antonio, are now recognised as copies from thehand of Dente, among them the so-called Massacre of theInnocents with the Fir-Tree (B. 20), The Virgin with thePalm-Tree (B. 62 a), Mary mourning over Christ (B. 35),and Ven
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